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By Felicia Fonseca (AP)
The history of ballot initiatives on the Navajo Nation is short – less than a handful attempted, none making it to a vote.
The latest effort was closer than any other – but still failed.
Navajo President Joe Shirley Jr. sought to have tribal members vote to reduce the 88-member Tribal Council and give the president a line-item veto. Petition circulators garnered the required number of signatures, but tribal officials declared in November that not enough were valid for the initiatives to go before voters.
The history of ballot initiatives on the Navajo Nation is short – less than a handful attempted, none making it to a vote.
The latest effort was closer than any other – but still failed.
Navajo President Joe Shirley Jr. sought to have tribal members vote to reduce the 88-member Tribal Council and give the president a line-item veto. Petition circulators garnered the required number of signatures, but tribal officials declared in November that not enough were valid for the initiatives to go before voters.
